[Alsfastball] more PRAWN... Todd Martin

[Al Doran]

From: "Todd Martin" <t__martin19 at sympatico.ca>
Subject: more PRAWN...
Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2005 19:19:22 -0400




Hi Fellas, lots of responses to the last note, thought I would do it again.

TM

The PRAWN Rule does not spread the talent around it is an award given 
arbitrarily that can be won or lost on 1 game, 1 at bat, 1 play.  I still 
have no idea how someone or some committee can want to use this as the only 
criteria to dictate where are a player can or can't play.  It's ridiculous.

Winning All World is primarily about stats, the people that choose the All 
World players certainly do not sit through games until the wee hours making 
notes on how players played in a 17-0 round robin game and I don't blame 
them.  The problem with that is the stats don't always (and more often than 
not, don't) tell the story of how well somebody has played.  The other side 
of the coin, which I eluded in my last email, is there are two distinct 
types of brackets used in the World Tournament.  Super bracket and beer 
bracket!  Am I the only person that sees this?

If there is a burning desire to make change and restrict how much talent 
one team can have at least use criteria that makes sense.  Base your list 
on National Team players or sit a group of people in a room and rank the 
players.  That is still arbitrary but I guarantee that you will come up 
with a list a lot closer to the "cream of the crop" that way than punishing 
some guy that went 10 for 12 in the beer bracket and went home before the 
2nd round starts in the playoffs.

Like I said last year in the annual meeting before the tourney started...if 
you want an option to restrict player movement, draw up zones.  Categorize 
players in areas, not just states and provinces.  Find out how many actual 
players are in each area, even it out that way.  There has to be something 
that makes more sense than PRAWN.  There are about 70 of you according to 
the ISC booklet, put your heads together and come up with something that 
works.

  From: "Todd Martin" <t__martin19 at sympatico.ca>




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